Donald Trump Is So Dumb He Doesn’t Know WMD WERE Found In Iraq
Ever since last night’s debate, Donald Trump has been running about frothing about his prescience in opposing the war in Iraq and claiming that the war was wrong (really? was he even conscious when the UN voted on the subject?) and that is was poorly run (a case can be made here that wishful thinking was an essential element in planning for the post-hostilities environment).

Bernie Supporters React to Hillary’s Astronomical Delegate Count
Both the GOP and the Democrat Party have their own special way of determining who will be their party’s nominee for president. Every state holds a caucus or a primary and the candidates are awarded delegates either proportionally to their showing at the polls or in a winner-take-all set-up.

Thomas Sowell Endorses Cruz Because Of The Supreme Court
Thomas Sowell, economist, social theorist, political philosopher, author and Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, endorses Sen. Ted Cruz. Sowell’s main, and perhaps sole, reason for backing Cruz is the Supreme Court vacancy resulting from the unexpected death of Justice Scalia and the advanced ages of other justices.

New Virginia Poll Shows the Race Clarifying
A new poll has been released for the State of Virginia, and it confirms a lot of the conventional wisdom about how the race is shaping up. Virginia is a Super Tuesday state and is probably a pretty good representation of how many of the Southern Super Tuesday states are thinking right now.

Meet the Leader of the National Socialist American Workers Party
Bernie Sanders’ campaign is now selling t-shirts with this design by Shepard Fairey, the guy who made the red-and-light-blue Obama “HOPE” poster: Finally, the Sanders campaign finds that iconic image that screams “national socialism.” I guess tomorrow belongs to them. We live in a world where Republicans get accused of fascism like clockwork, but the socialist Democratic candidate can pledge “a political revolution,” “A future to believe in,” use quasi-art-deco 1930s-style art that features a purifying fire . . . and nobody blinks.

Dem Panic Time: It Berns! It Berns!
I guess we’re going to have to make a series out of the obvious panic of the Democratic establishment over the ascent of Bernie Sanders. Now Democrats have rolled out their senior economic luminaries to blast a widely reported “study” that claimed Sanders’s socialism would lead to an economic boom in America.

NV Tiebreaker: Hillary Is 7 for 7 In Game of Chance Against Bernie
From coin tosses to high-card, Hillary Clinton cannot stop beating Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) when luck takes the place of voters. To break tied precincts in the Iowa Caucus a few weeks ago, Hillary won every coin toss — 6 out of 6 — the odds of which are less than 2%. In Nevada’s caucus today, Democrats played a game of high-low card to determine a tie. And super-lucky Hillary just won with an ace to Bernie’s 6 in the precinct of Pahrump, Nevada.

Court drama jolts Senate races
The death of Justice Antonin Scalia is throwing another curveball into the Republican battle to maintain control of the Senate.

Obama Scandals

Obama Opposed Black Conservative Judge Who Was Blocked for 2 Years
When the Democrats mumble about how important it is to confirm judges, just remember that during the Bush years they stalled judicial nominees for years. They had a special enmity for minority conservative judges. Judge Miguel Estrada was successfully blocked for 2 years because they feared that he might end up on the Supreme Court. The ugly liberal attacks helped lead to his wife’s suicide.

How Scalia and Ted Cruz Saved the 2nd Amendment
Since the passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the GOP presidential field has, in a rare show of unity, supported Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s statement that Scalia’s replacement should be determined by the results of the November election. Democratic hypocrites like Sen. Chuck Schumer accuse the GOP of obstructionism, the memory of their blocking of George W. Bush nominees having faded.

Fossilized Thinking: Back to communal horse and water powered farms to save the climate
Andreas Malm longs for the good old days. In his new book, Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming, Malm, who teaches human ecology at Lund University in Sweden, pines for a time when manufacturing depended on waterwheels instead of steam engines. Indeed, Malm spends more than 300 pages—about 75 percent of the text—discussing why English manufacturers abandoned waterwheels and replaced them with coal-fired steam engines. It’s worthwhile history. But in the hands of an avowed Marxist like Malm, it’s tedious sledding.

Cibolo Creek Ranch owner recalls Scalia’s last hours in Texas
A first-time guest to the Cibolo Creek Creek Ranch, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was animated and engaged during dinner Friday night, as one of three dozen invitees to an event that had nothing to do with law or politics, according to the ranch owner.

Sweeping sex assault suit filed against University of Tennessee
Six women filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday claiming the University of Tennessee has created a student culture that enables sexual assaults by student-athletes, especially football players, and then uses an unusual, legalistic adjudication process that is biased against victims who step forward….

The impact of Scalia’s death on the major court cases to be decided this term
The current term of the Supreme Court began the first Monday in October and will continue until at least late June. Several major cases have already been argued before the justices, but the vote on those decisions as well as several high profile cases that have yet to be heard must now go forward without the court’s most reliable conservative voice.

Why So Many Millennials Are Socialists
Septuagenarian presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has been capitalizing on young people’s lack of knowledge and life experience to sell them a bill of rotten goods.

Paul Ryan: “We’re Not Going To Be Talking About Visa Caps”
In a remarkable interview with popular Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo, House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) declined multiple times to answer whether he would, as Speaker of the House, allow legislation to proceed curbing the rapid growth of America’s foreign-born population.

1987 New York Times Editorial Urges Senate to Block Reagan’s SCOTUS Nominee
In early October of 1987, when President Ronald Reagan had more than a year left on his final term that would end in January of 1989, The New York Times editorial board openly championed the idea of the United States Senate blocking Reagan’s Supreme Court nomination. Their rationale? The fact that Democrats had regained control of the Senate in 1986.

Transgender Bathroom Bill Heads to South Dakota Governor
Citing student privacy rights, the South Dakota Senate this week passed a bill that would prohibit students at public elementary and secondary schools from using bathrooms, lockers, and shower rooms that don’t match their biological sex. The bill, however, also requires reasonable accommodation of students who identify as transgender through the provision of alternate facilities if requested.

University of Montana student gets $245K settlement over false rape allegation
Those with long memories who have been following the “campus rape epidemic” story arc may remember the unusual case of Jordan Johnson. The University of Montana quarterback had one of the more promising collegiate football careers of the past few years. In the 2012 season he passed for 3,387 yards and 32 touchdowns with a quarterback rating of 154.7, placing him in the top five all time players at that position in the school’s history. The NFL had already come knocking and he was expected to have a good shot at a spot in the draft.

California Board Rejects Measure Mandating Condoms In Adult Films
California officials in charge of workplace safety voted down a proposal Thursday that would have specifically called for putting condoms on actors in adult films, heeding the call of scores of industry officials who said adding that and other restrictions would force them to make films nobody would watch.

Shallow Pre-College Reading Assignments Pave Way for Social Justice Agenda
More than 350 colleges assigned a book to their freshmen last summer. That is, each college picked one book as a common reading. That book was sent on a large mission. Its first job was to create community among the students by giving them something beyond social networking as a shared experience. The book is also meant to introduce pre-freshmen to college-level reading. Behind this lurks a third hope: engaging the half-hearted so they don’t drop out.

The #FreeStacy Story: Why Was My @rsmccain Account Suspended?
Unexpectedly, and without explanation, my @rsmccain Twitter account was suspended Friday evening. Based on past experiences, my guess would be that this resulted from a complaint by one of the leading “social justice warriors” (SJWs) who have been at war with #GamerGate since August 2014. However, there was no reason stated for the suspension, and who knows?

Col. Sanders’ Cambridge Fried Economy
John has already alerted us to the example of Venezuela’s collapsing socialist economy as a model of what life under President Bernie Sanders could be like—a prospect I’m calling “Colonel Sanders Cambridge Fried Economy,” since it would be a Cambridge (MA) professor’s dream to be in charge of fixing all of the things wrong with America.

International

40,000-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species found
In what is quite an amazing discovery, scientists have confirmed that a bracelet found in Siberia is 40,000 years old. This makes it the oldest piece of jewelry ever discovered, and archeologists have been taken aback by the level of its sophistication.

Venezuela Burns as Court Entrenches Gridlock
The Venezuelan Supreme Court late this week ruled in favor of the country’s President, Nicolas Maduro, in his dispute with Venezuela’s National Assembly over a move Maduro made last month to increase his control of the country’s finances and economy.

Don’t Let Obama Fill Scalia’s Seat
Congress has frittered away virtually every constitutional power save one: the power of the Senate to deny presidential appointments to the federal bench. If Senate Republicans expect conservatives to ever trust them on anything, then they must decline to consider Obama’s nominee to replace Justice Scalia.

There’s precedent for rejecting Obama Supreme Court nominee
“Obama, GOP gird for battle,” screams the headline of the Washington Post that arrived on doorsteps in the snowy U.S. capital this morning. A battle, the story made clear, between Senate Republicans and Democrats over President Obama’s nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy caused by the death of Antonin Scalia

Have We Finally Reached Peak Transgender?
Men competing as women at the Olympics, LGBT themes on 30 to 45 percent of prime-time television, and influence at the White House—please tell me we’ve reached the transgender high-water mark.

The Supreme Court Controversy In One Sentence
The controversy over the Supreme Court vacancy is entirely predictable and playing out in predictable ways, but as of yet I haven’t seen anyone state the common sense of the subject directly.

Uncle Bernie Sanders Is Brainwashing Our Uneducated Youth
Bernie Sanders is a nice, avuncular character who seems to be harmless enough — a nostalgic throwback to another era — but his espousal of socialism, “democratic” though it may be, misleads an entire generation of American youth who have absolutely no idea of the economic or social ramifications of the senator’s ideology.

On Teacher’s Kids, and Hugos
Now, I was a teacher’s kid – a child at the same school my mother taught at. Teachers’ kids tend to meet other teachers’ kids. I’ve never heard any one of them have this experienced any differently, so I would guess it is pretty universal: besides, it makes sense. Authority is assumed to bias in favor of its own (whether children, or friends, or merely those like themselves).

Truth in Captioning
The Sydney Morning Herald provides a précis of Monday’s Q&A with Mark Steyn. What the average New South Wales reader will take away from the piece is probably their interesting choice of a screen cap

Pro Tip: Don’t Be a “Feminist Man”
Nora Samaran (@NoraSamaran on Twitter) runs a blog called “Dating Tips for the Feminist Man,” the idea of which is absurd, an oxymoron.

How to Break a Party
Beginning with the Tea Party wave and continuing through the not-Romney musical chairs of the 2012 Republican primary and the battles over debt limits and fiscal cliffs, most coverage of the Republican Party’s internal divisions during the Obama era fell into an easy groove: There was the establishment, and there was the base

The Collapse of Gender Sanity
Physiology doesn’t lie: Women are less effective than men at meeting military objectives, and far more likely to be injured in combat. Let’s stop denying reality in a misguided effort toward “equality” and agree that women should not be drafted to combat roles.

Guys: Never Talk to a College Girl
The more I read about the current climate on America’s college and university campuses, the more convinced I am that no man smart enough to go to college would ever be stupid enough to date a college girl.

Multiculturalism has gone mad in Germany
It had been announced as a multicultural experiment prior to the actual arrival of hundreds of thousands of immigrants whom everyone in Germany expected would be speedily integrated into German society and its glorious universities. The University of Dortmund had opened an interfaith prayer hall with special rules. It had been named “raum der stille”, the room of silence, a prototype which was opened in many universities in Germany during the last two years.

#FreeStacy: “A Girl’s Name”
Yesterday, I did a short telephone interview with Ethan Ralph of The Ralph Retort, which began with him asking, “What should I call you?” This led to me explaining a bit about why (a) my friends call me Stacy, but (b) I use my full name as my byline.

Ivy League crybullies vs. survivor of a Soviet labor camp; guess who needs “emotional support”?
It’s hard to tell parody from real life on certain college campuses these days, but I’m pretty sure this article is serious. The article, from the Brown Daily Herald, discusses how Brown students’ emotional and academic well-being is suffering because they are so busy fulfilling their “social justice responsibilities” as student activists. (And here I thought that if my parents were paying $60K a year for me to go to school, my first responsibility would be to study!)